Dear Editor,
Sometime last year when the roads and water situation became unbearable, residents of Retrieve, Linden blocked the roads in protest. The Regional Chairman along with other top functionaries/officials had a meeting with the disgruntled residents and promised that they would soon endeavour to rectify the situation. But to date nothing has been done, the roads are worse!
Taxis are refusing to drive through certain streets, Oronoque Drive is virtually impassable, vehicles generally are reluctant to enter. What if there is an emergency? A truck load of “stuff” was dumped by whomever and left just so! That is useless. Even for pedestrians walking is agony, people are walking through other peoples’ yards to get to where they are going and when it rains – as is now happening, may Jesus be your Shepherd!
But Pine Street is no different; this street for years has been sickening, all they do to ‘repair’ it is dump stuff from time to time. For over a month now stuff has been dumped along the street and left to form little hills, when it rains it’s havoc.
Rainbow City has a terrible and dangerous operation that I spoke about not so long ago. Scrap iron metal dealers are operating without care, massive heavy machinery is loading and being lifted into trucks where school children attending the McKenzie Primary School must walk. The elderly, cyclists, cars, must all contend with this dangerous operation that for the most part goes on in the middle of the road. When it rains, the road is transferred into a slush of brown ice-cream.
Sir David Rose Ave, between Pittman’s shop and “zipper” Johnson’s home (Greenheart St. Corner) is also in a bad way.
The police traffic department, the managers/officials of the town come and go without the least concern!
Yours faithfully,
Frank Fyffe
